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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: marlice@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:51:44 +0200
Subject: From: Marcel and sister

From: Marcel and Alice (Sister)
Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire
Email: marlice@terra.com.mx

Dear Beloved,

It is a pleasure for us to use this time to write to you in other to forward
explanation of our inheritance from our late beloved mother MRS. EGOBIA
ALINA, which we want to put into your custody for business investment in
your country for our future benefit.

Dear, during the time our beloved late mother was working with the ministry
of Agriculture here in our country, she made alot of money, the sum of US$3.8
million (Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which
she packed in a trunk box and deposited it with a security company located
here in Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa for security reasons.

Beloved, I and my sister have visited the security company with the vital
documents their company issued to our late mother during the time she deposited
this box in their company and through this documents, the security company
have now confirmed us as beneficiaries of the box being the only children
of their late customer being our mother.

Now, what we want from you as an assistance to us is to stand as our foreign
partner/guildian to receive this box on our behalf in your country from
the security company agent immediately he arrive your country with this
box. Please, urgently get back to us with assurance word to be strenght
forward
to us in handling the investment of this money into a profitbale business
field for us.

As soon as we hear from you with confirmation of your willingness to help
us, we will forward you contact informations of the security company to
enable you establish communication with them as our foreign partner that
will receive this box.

Thanks and remain blessed, while looking seriously forward for your immediate
reply.

Yours sincerely brethrens,

Marcel and Alice (Sister)


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